by- Suzie-Q @ 4:28 PM MST
Breaking news reports late on Monday showed that President George W. Bush had commuted the sentence of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, a former top aide who also served as Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. An appeal by Libby to stay out of jail pending an appeal of his conviction for committing perjury and other offenses was rejected by a federal court this morning.
Libby did not receive a pardon, but he did have his 30 month jail sentence commuted by President Bush. He remains guilty of the felonies of perjury, obstruction of justice, and making false statements in the federal investigation of the outing of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson. He will also pay a $250,000 fine.
Fitz and team worked their asses off to get this evildoer behind bars!
Bush says it was too harsh of a punishment for poor little Scooter? He certainly didn’t feel that way when he laughed as he sent people to the electric chair… while he was governor of Texas.
Edwards: Bush “Clinically Incapable Of Understanding That Mistakes Have Consequences”
Hi SQ
Glad your putor’s up and running again. TGFG “thank gawd fer google” you probably still have bookmarks and links…( :
Fitz did the whole three year trial for only $1.5 million to the tax payers. Libby still owes us a mill…):
CIA/Leak investigation on the cheap
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s three-year CIA/Leak investigation has cost the tax-payer the least amount of any Justice Department probe by an Independent Counsel in history.
NBC News has learned, that since the start of Fitzgerald’s investigation of the Valerie Plame leak, beginning in December 2003, the total cost to be reported to the GAO is about $1.5 million.
By contrast, the decade-long probe of former Clinton Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros by Independent Counsel David Barrett, cost about $23 million.
Fitzgerald’s office has incurred only about $400 thousand in total expenses above the salary and benefits for the personnel working for him.
The Ken Starr investigation of Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky cost the tax-payer $64 million.
President Bush is holding private meetings “over sodas and sparkling water” in which he asks trusted advisers — “Why does the rest of the world seem to hate America? Or is it just me they hate?”
YES MR. BUSH AMERICA HATES YOU AND QUITE FRANKLY THE WORLD HATES YOU.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND?
Geezer:
Thanks for that info! Yep, Fitz did a great job of maintaining a reasonable budget.
Bush is probably the most hated President ever!
Hi folks
1st off, for Suzie, COX frequently does have intermittent ups/downs when it’s this hot (113) and it’s going to get worse in the next few days.
Although we are all buried fiberoptic cable, the junction boxes are not and the heat is going to cause frequent service “blips” so if Suzie and/or I disappear for awhile, you just have to blame “summer in Phoenix”.
RE: the “commutation”
What does he have to lose? The Impeachment Bus is now loaded for bear….with Cheney’s fat face in it’s sight.
GITMO for both – and hang the bastar*s.
Keith Olbermann is pouring it on Bush tonight.
Basheert:
Yep, summer in Phoenix, or in my case, Scottsdale… Well, we’re supposed to hit 117 tomorrow, right? Oh fun!
Let me know when your computer is about to go out, so I can post some prose and poetry while you’re gone.
Check out Divajood’s latest post about Scooter.
She burned Bush’s tail.
They lock up first time black drug offenders at rates sometimes 57 times higher than they do for whites, and this Constitution shredding cracker gets off.
With the Republican zeal for incarceration, you’d think they’d keep Libby in jail until he molders. But oh…I forgot…he’s one of their own.
Can’t have that. F*ckers!
Chimperialism means that those carrying the Holy Grail are exempt from the rules laid down on commoners.
No surprise here at all. I’m surprised it wasn’t a full pardon.
Agree, JollyRoger. The only surprise here is no full pardon.
This is a sad day for America when Justice has been undone!
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald disputed the president’s assertion that the prison term was excessive. Libby was sentenced under the same laws as other criminals, Fitzgerald said. “It is fundamental to the rule of law that all citizens stand before the bar of justice as equals,” the prosecutor said.
Freaking Unbelievable..
This cannot stand..No Way…We won’t let it stand!
Bush has gone too far this time!
This must not stand! Grass Roots will not stand for this…
It’s the final straw!
Revolution, NOW!!!
Suzie, now for something completely different. Tag. You’re it.
Can you tell me if what I’ve got is the real White House phonebook, in case the switchboard’s down when I call about Scooter? | Corrente
The country is calling, sir.